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File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1588: Physician and occultist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches. | File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1588: Physician and occultist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches. | ||
||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... | ||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first man to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe. Pic. | ||
||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. | ||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. | ||
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File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. | File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. | ||
||1812: Étienne-Louis Malus dies ... physicist and mathematician. | ||1812: Étienne-Louis Malus dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1815: Robert Fulton dies ... engineer. | ||1815: Robert Fulton dies ... engineer. Pic. | ||
||1825: Thomas Bowdler dies ... physician and philanthropist. | ||1825: Thomas Bowdler dies ... physician and philanthropist. Best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays. The work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, was intended to provide a version of Shakespeare that was more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Pic: title page. | ||
||1841: John Philip Holland born ... engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic. | ||1841: John Philip Holland born ... engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic. | ||
||1848: Andrew Inglis Clark born ... engineer, lawyer, and politician. | ||1848: Andrew Inglis Clark born ... engineer, lawyer, and politician. Pic. | ||
||1856: Nikolai Lobachevsky dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1856: Nikolai Lobachevsky dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
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||1933: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. | ||1933: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. | ||
||1939: Jamal Nazrul Islam born ... physicist and cosmologist. | ||1939: Jamal Nazrul Islam born ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1968: Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué. | ||1968: Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué. | ||
||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies. | ||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies. He investigated photoconducting properties of sulphur. He prepared the permanent photoelectret state of matter for the first time and published his paper in 1937 and 1938. He called[citation needed] the electret discovered by Mototaro Eguchi in 1919, thermoelectret and the electret discovered by him in 1937, photoelectret. Pic. | ||
||1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. | ||1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. | ||
Revision as of 18:19, 10 December 2018
1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.
1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".
1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .